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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 44
istinct as that of bayonets and more comprehensive in its results than the armed contest that has just closed. The following remarks of the President of the United States, do not magnify the occasion. They are historical: The present is regarded as a most critical juncture in the affairs of the nation, scarcely less so tcontroversy is no narrow one of party, that it involves the traditions and spirit of the government, and goes to the ultimate contest of constitutional liberty in America. Regarding these issues, the question comes fearfully to the mind: Has the past war merely laid the foundation of another? The pregnant lesson of human experienc recognized by every foreign observer, and by the intelligent everywhere; for it is the South that in the past produced four-fifths of the political literature of America, and presented in its public men that list of American names best known in the Christian world. That superiourity the war has not conquered or lowered; and the
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
war of ideas. coarse and superficial advice to the South about material prosperity. an aspiration of Gov. Orr of South Carolina. the South should not lose its moral and intellectual distinctiveness as a people. questions outside the pale of th with robberies. As an evidence of the poverty of the South, produced by the war, we may cite the case of the State of South Carolina. By the census of 1860, the property of the State was value at $400,000,000. Of this, it has been estimated tha, but proud and ambitious heart of the South will scarcely respond to the mean aspiration of the recusant Governor of South Carolina-Mr. Orr: I am tired of South Carolina as she was. I court for her the material prosperity of New England. I would haSouth Carolina as she was. I court for her the material prosperity of New England. I would have her acres teem with life and vigour and intelligence, as do those of Massachusetts. There are time-servers in every cause; there are men who fill their bellies with husks, and turn on their faces and die; but there are others who, in the midst
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 44
han the Yankee magna bona of money and display, and loftier aspirations than the civilization of material things. In the life of nations, as in that of the individual, there is something better than pelf, and the coarse prosperity of dollars and cents. The lacerated, but proud and ambitious heart of the South will scarcely respond to the mean aspiration of the recusant Governor of South Carolina-Mr. Orr: I am tired of South Carolina as she was. I court for her the material prosperity of New England. I would have her acres teem with life and vigour and intelligence, as do those of Massachusetts. There are time-servers in every cause; there are men who fill their bellies with husks, and turn on their faces and die; but there are others who, in the midst of public calamities, and in their own scanty personal fortune, leave behind them the memory of noble deeds, and a deathless heritage of glory. Defeat has not made all our sacred things profane. The war has left the South its o
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 44
material things. In the life of nations, as in that of the individual, there is something better than pelf, and the coarse prosperity of dollars and cents. The lacerated, but proud and ambitious heart of the South will scarcely respond to the mean aspiration of the recusant Governor of South Carolina-Mr. Orr: I am tired of South Carolina as she was. I court for her the material prosperity of New England. I would have her acres teem with life and vigour and intelligence, as do those of Massachusetts. There are time-servers in every cause; there are men who fill their bellies with husks, and turn on their faces and die; but there are others who, in the midst of public calamities, and in their own scanty personal fortune, leave behind them the memory of noble deeds, and a deathless heritage of glory. Defeat has not made all our sacred things profane. The war has left the South its own memories, its own heroes, its own tears, its own dead. Under these traditions, sons will grow
George Washington (search for this): chapter 44
been suddenly awakened and elevated as great responsibilities have been thrust upon them, and have risen to the demands of the new occasion. An example of such change was afforded by plain Andrew Johnson, when he stepped to the dignity of President of a restored Union, with all its great historical trusts for him to administer in sight of the world. From that hour the man changed. The eminence did not confound him; he saw before him a part in American history second only to that of George Washington; he left behind him the ambitions and resentments of mere party; he rose as the man who has been secretly, almost unconsciously, great — a commonplace among his neighbour, the familiar fellow of the company-suddenly, completely to the full height and dignity of the new destiny that called him. The man who had been twitted as a tailor and condemned as a demagogue, proved a statesman, measuring his actions for the future, insensible to clamour and patient for results. President Johnso
Robert E. Lee (search for this): chapter 44
he extremity of her humiliation The record of the war closes exactly with the laying down of the Confederate arms. We do not design to transgress this limit of our narrative. Bat it will not be out of place to regard generally the political consequences of the war, so far as they have been developed in a formation of parties, involving the further destinies of the country, and in the light of whose actions will probably be read many future pages of American History. The surrender of Gen. Lee's army was not the simple act of a defeated and overpowered General; it was not the misfortune of an individual. The public mind of the South was fully represented in that surrender. The people had become convinced that the Confederate cause was lost; they saw that the exertions of four years, misdirected and abused, had not availed, and they submitted to what they conceived now to be the determined fortune of the war. That war closed on a spectacle of ruin, the greatest of modern tim
Orr (search for this): chapter 44
e South to surrender only what the war conquered. what the war determined, and what it did not determine. the new arena of contest and the war of ideas. coarse and superficial advice to the South about material prosperity. an aspiration of Gov. Orr of South Carolina. the South should not lose its moral and intellectual distinctiveness as a people. questions outside the pale of the war. Rights, duties and hope of the South. what would be the extremity of her humiliation The record ofe individual, there is something better than pelf, and the coarse prosperity of dollars and cents. The lacerated, but proud and ambitious heart of the South will scarcely respond to the mean aspiration of the recusant Governor of South Carolina-Mr. Orr: I am tired of South Carolina as she was. I court for her the material prosperity of New England. I would have her acres teem with life and vigour and intelligence, as do those of Massachusetts. There are time-servers in every cause; there a
Macaulay (search for this): chapter 44
indulged but small expectations from the coming man. The new President was sprung from a low order of life, and was what Southern gentlemen called a scrub. In qualities of mind it was generally considered that he had the shallowness and fluency of the demagogue; but in this there was a mistake. At any rate, it must be confessed, Mr. Johnson had no literature and but little education of any sort ; in his agrarian speeches in the Senate, he quoted the Lays of Ancient Rome as translated by Macaulay; and he was constantly making those mistakes in historical and literary allusions which never fail to characterize and betray self-educated men. Before his elevation to the Presidency, Mr. Johnson was considered a demagogue, who seldom ventured out of common-places, or attempted anything above the coarse sense of the multitude, successful, industrious, a clod-head, a man of the people, that peculiar product of American politics. But there are familiar instances in history where characters
William H. Seward (search for this): chapter 44
the common Constitution of the country. What may be designated generally as the Conservative party in the North, had long held the doctrine that, as the Union was inviolable and permanent, secession was illegal, revolutionary, null, and void; that it had no legal validity or effect; that it was the act of seditious individuals, and did not affect the status of the States purporting to secede. This branch of their doctrine was accepted by a large number of the Republican party; among them Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State. President Lincoln had acted upon this theory when it became necessary to reorganize States overrun by Federal armies. It was held by the Conservative party, against all rational dispute, that the business of the Federal Government, with respect to the insurgent States, was simply to quell resistance, and to execute everywhere the Constitution and laws. Its contest was not with the States, but with the illegal powers within the States engaged in resisting its auth
Henry A. Wise (search for this): chapter 44
position. the great historical issue. series of Radical measures in Congress. the blindness of despotism. plain consequences of the Radical policy. the residuum of State Rights claimed by the South. President Johnson's declaration of another war. have the Americans a government? differences of opinion in the South, correspondent to the division of parties in the North. a small and detestable faction of time-servers. noble declaration of Ex President Davis. eloquent appeal of Henry A. Wise. basis for a new Southern party. the South to surrender only what the war conquered. what the war determined, and what it did not determine. the new arena of contest and the war of ideas. coarse and superficial advice to the South about material prosperity. an aspiration of Gov. Orr of South Carolina. the South should not lose its moral and intellectual distinctiveness as a people. questions outside the pale of the war. Rights, duties and hope of the South. what would be the
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